As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. – Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. – Virginia Woolf
I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg
In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime – responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors – has been removed in itself is a positive development. – Jose Ramos-Horta